Acrotaphus

Acrotaphus
Acrotaphus wiltii female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Ichneumonidae
Tribe:	Ephialtini
Genus:	Acrotaphus Townes & Townes, 1960

Acrotaphus is a genus of ichneumon wasps in the family Ichneumonidae. ^[1] There are 27 described species in the genus. ^{[2] [3]} They are parasitoids of spiders in the families Araneidae and Tetragnathidae. ^[4]

Species

These 27 species belong to the genus Acrotaphus: ^[2]

• Acrotaphus amajari (Pádua, 2020)
• Acrotaphus amazonicus (Pádua & Sääksjärvi, 2020)
• Acrotaphus bodoquenaensis (Pádua, 2020)
• Acrotaphus chedelae (Gauld, 1991)
• Acrotaphus cuzconus (Pádua & Sääksjärvi, 2020)
• Acrotaphus dolichopus (Pádua, 2020)
• Acrotaphus fasciatus (Brulle, 1846)
• Acrotaphus fascipennis (Cresson, 1865)
• Acrotaphus ferruginosus (Cresson, 1865)
• Acrotaphus franklini (Gauld, 1991)
• Acrotaphus fuscipennis (Cresson, 1865)
• Acrotaphus homeofranklini (Pádua, 2020)
• Acrotaphus jackiechani (Pádua & Sääksjärvi, 2020)
• Acrotaphus japi (Higa & Penteado-Dias, 2019) ^[5]
• Arcotaphus kourou (Pádua & Sääksjärvi, 2020)
• Acrotaphus latifasciatus (Cameron, 1911)
• Acrotaphus mexicanus (Cameron, 1886)
• Acrotaphus micrus (Pádua, 2020)
• Acrotaphus monotaenius (Pádua, 2020)
• Acrotaphus nambilloensis (Pádua, 2020)
• Acrotaphus pseudoamazonicus (Pádua & Sääksjärvi, 2020)
• Acrotaphus pseudomexicanus (Pádua, 2020)
• Acrotaphus tibialis (Cameron, 1886)
• Acrotaphus venezuelanus (Pádua, 2020)
• Acrotaphus wagnerianae (Pádua, 2020) ^[3]
• Acrotaphus wiltii (Cresson, 1870) ^[1]
• Acrotaphus zampieronae (Pádua, 2020)

Gallery

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  Acrotaphus fasciatus female
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  Acrotaphus fuscipennis male
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  Acrotaphus latifasciatus female
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  Acrotaphus tibialis female
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  Acrotaphus wiltii female

References

1. Carlson, Robert W. (1979). "Ichneumonidae". In Krombein, Karl V.; Hurd, Paul D. Jr.; Smith, David R.; Burks, B.D. (eds.). Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Vol. 1. Symphyta and Apocrita (Parasitica). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 385–386. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
2. Pádua, Diego G.; Sääksjärvi, Ilari E.; Monteiro, Ricardo F.; Oliveira, Marcio L. (January 19, 2020). "Review of the New World genus Acrotaphus Townes, 1960 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae), with descriptions of fifteen new species". Zootaxa. 4719 (1): 1–62. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4719.1.1. PMID   32230647. S2CID   212927763.
3. Pádua, Diego G.; Kloss, Thiago G. (July 9, 2020). "A new species of Acrotaphus Townes (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) from the Brazilian Amazon, with notes on its host spider behavioral modification". Zootaxa. 4810 (1): 161–168. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4810.1.10.
4. Gauld, Ian D.; Dubois, Jacques (2006-03-29). "Phylogeny of the Polysphincta group of genera (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae; Pimplinae): a taxonomic revision of spider ectoparasitoids". Systematic Entomology. 31 (3). Wiley: 529–564. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2006.00334.x. ISSN   0307-6970.
5. P. T. Higa; A. M. Penteado-Dias (May 20, 2019). "Altitudinal effects on diversity of Pimplinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from Southeast Brazil and description of new species". Brazilian Journal of Biology. 80 (2): Article. doi: 10.1590/1519-6984.210438 . PMID   31116298.